Example sentences of "[adv] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In addition , other legal principles are laid down by the decisions of judges over time , or proclaimed in legislation .
2 Supervision is the process of the laying down by the courts of guidelines for the development of legal principles .
3 Agricultural details were a nice reciprocal touch : the Hind helicopters , with which the Sandinistas were destroying the contras , had allegedly been shipped in by the Russians in crates labelled agricultural produce .
4 The scale of these stations was dictated not only by the numbers of passengers they had to handle and the imperial power they had to represent , but by the complexity of the Indian railway operation , and the range of facilities that had to be made available to the hierarchic and heterogeneous nature of the passenger traffic .
5 Miles flew by in the barren landscape , punctuated only by the carcasses of kangaroos on the line .
6 The media education movement in South East Asia , WACC 's most active media education programme , is sustained largely by the efforts of women .
7 The dismal nature of English teaching for O and A level in the past can perhaps be accounted for largely by the numbers of pupils entered for the examinations who were not in fact suited to study literature ( though they might have benefited from an advanced study of their own language ) .
8 Understanding the advertising business inside out is vital , for it is they who must be aware of all the numerous restraints imposed , not only by the advertising industry itself through the Advertising Standards Authority and The Independent Television Companies Association ( ITCA ) , but also by the manufacturers of products in sensitive areas .
9 Although evaluation is a complex issue , it is important in considering future development to ascertain whether day care is fulfilling its objectives as perceived both by the providers and also by the consumers of services .
10 In this book authorities are said to be limited also by the kinds of reasons on which they may or may not rely in making decisions and issuing directives , and by the kind of reasons their decisions can pre-empt .
11 Much of the difference between costs and revenues is made up by the losses of owners .
12 The transaction 's commercial object was that the Prudential would acquire a development being carried out by the developers with funds provided by the Prudential .
13 There 's one gigantic computer in California , which has got access to a hundred databases there called the stores of information , compiled mainly by the publishers of journals .
14 There 's one gigantic computer in California , which has got access to a hundred databases there called the stores of information , compiled mainly by the publishers of journals .
15 She was a singer in a band which was on the verge of big pop success when the group started to be messed around by the men in suits .
16 Even by the standards of ships that could set down upon the surfaces of worlds , the Tormentum Malorum was singularly sleek and streamlined for rapid departure or arrival through atmosphere .
17 Tethlis was cold and ruthless , even by the standards of Elves .
18 This is shown most dramatically by the results of studies in which , using exactly the same stimulus material , opposite field advantages have been obtained according to the task requirements ( Klatzky , 1972 ; Seamon and Gazzaniga , 1973 ; Robertshaw and Sheldon , 1976 ; Niederbuhl and Springer , 1979 ) .
19 He was on the road for a week , making sketches in villages along the way , intrigued particularly by the lives of weavers .
20 He was depicted as the sun , a young warrior who was born each day , defeated the stars of the night and was resurrected again and again by the souls of warriors in his care .
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